(1) For this part, each of the following is an
"allowable publication method" for the publication of a statement by a
practitioner or another person, whether or not the other person is acting for
a law practice—
(a) publication of the statement in a printed publication;
(b) publication of the statement on an Internet website by means of the
publication of an electronic version of a printed publication, but only if the
statement merely reproduces a statement as published in that printed
publication and the printed publication is published independently of the
practitioner or a law practice of which the practitioner is a member;
(c)
publication of the statement on an Internet website by the publication of the
contents of a directory or database that includes the statement and that is
published or maintained independently of the practitioner or a law practice of
which the practitioner is a member;
(d) public exhibition of the statement
in, on, over or under any building, vehicle or place or in the air in view of
persons in or on any street or public place;
(e) display of the statement on
any printed document gratuitously sent or delivered to any person or thrown or
left on premises occupied by any person or on any vehicle;
(f) display of the
statement on any printed document provided to a person as a receipt or record
in relation to a transaction.
(2) However, each of the following is not an
"allowable publication method" for the publication of a statement by a
practitioner or another person, whether or not the other person is acting for
a law practice—
(a) public exhibition of the statement in or on a hospital;
(b) display of the statement on any printed document gratuitously sent or
delivered to a hospital or left in a hospital or on any vehicle in the
vicinity of a hospital.
(3) A printed publication, directory or database is
considered to be published or maintained independently of a practitioner or a
law practice of which the practitioner is a member only if—
(a) it is not
published or maintained by the practitioner or an employee of the practitioner
or a member or an employee of the law practice of which the practitioner is a
member; and
(b) the person who publishes or maintains it does so in the
ordinary course of the conduct of the person’s business or affairs.